Quotes About Substance

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

Wikipedia is a victory of process over substance.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

What do you two know about cocaine?' 'Goes well sprinkled on toast,

Tobacco is not like wine but is rather more like smallpox or heroin.

It is no coincidence that demons and drug dealers often use the same opening line ("Just try a little; it will feel good"), or that religious people often see demons in drugs. For habituation to any goal—sex or power, say—is literally an addictive process, a growing dependence on the biological chemicals that make these things gratifying.

Praise is a substance.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

Pantheism merges the natural and supernatural, the finite and infinite, into one substance. It often speaks of God as the hidden ground of the phenomenal world, but does not conceive of Him as personal, and therefore as endowed with intelligence and will. It boldly declares that all is God, and thus engages in what Brightman calls "the expansion of God," so that we get "too much of God," seeing that He also includes all the evil of the world.

As animals subject to the laws of earth, we think time is experience. But time is more a substance, like air, only of course not air. It is in fact a holy element.

You cannot feel time grind against you. Time is nothing but everything, not the seconds, minutes, hours, days, years. Yet this substanceless substance, this bending and shaping, this warping, this is the way we understand our world.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

Ignoro de qué sustancia extraordinaria está confeccionada la identidad, pero es un tejido discontinuo que zurcimos a fuerza de voluntad y de memoria.

So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: 'Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even make you a movie about it.' Style instead of substance, the image instead of the reality

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

In any situation you can think of, impatience is a source of weakness and fear, while patience represents substance and strength.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Taste the hashish, guest of mine—taste the hashish.